Every song I ever wrote, I wrote to be heard. So, if I was given a choice that 50 years from now I could either have a dollar or knowing that some kid was listening to my song, I'd go with the kid listening to my song. Ian MacKaye More Quotes by Ian MacKaye More Quotes From Ian MacKaye What does bother me is that I have to spend time and energy dealing with the ramifications of what people do think about me. Ian MacKaye energy people thinking Record labels have enjoyed a 100-year monopoly of selling plastic and now they're up against a different format. Ian MacKaye records different years I have a lot of stuff. Slowly I'm getting all my materials organized. Ian MacKaye materials organized stuff We had punks literally protesting Fugazi. I respect a boycott. I respect a conscionable boycott, but of all bands to boycott? Fight crime. If you really want to get out there, go fight crime. Ian MacKaye band fighting want It makes me sad, the way human beings talk smack. It's why I don't like irony. People are too gleeful to put some teeth into something. Ian MacKaye teeth people way The archiving industry, much like the funeral industry and the wedding industry, these industries can be very exploitative. Ian MacKaye industry funeral The amount of money that people spend on saving stuff, they try to feed you this idea that it's more important. Ian MacKaye important people ideas Getting your letters or pictures digitized. I don't think it's that important. The more you spend on your materials, you're given the sense that those things are more important due to the total amount spent. You'd probably be better off giving that money to a soup kitchen. Ian MacKaye soup-kitchens giving thinking You had bands like D.O.A., or Black Flag, and a whole network opened up to trailblazer a counter culture movement. I'm more interested in the less sensational type of stories. Ian MacKaye counter-culture black stories "Straight Edge" was a song about my life. There was no structure, no premise as if I was forming a club. There were no tenets. I mean I wrote a song called "Straight Edge," I'll take that, but the song was about my life the way I wanted to live it. Ian MacKaye song mean way Structures can be manipulated for ill as well, especially when people are dealing with issues of power, or control, or violence. Ian MacKaye issues violence people Now anyone can move anywhere. I've made deep connections with people around the world since I tour everywhere that I will simply never see again. Ian MacKaye connections people moving Why do we celebrate the opening of a bar so much? Ian MacKaye opening celebrate bars I had a bartender friend once tell me about a $14.00 shot of vodka, this was years ago it's probably more now. I thought that was crazy. From what I understand, vodka has no taste. I think people like the taste of their money. Ian MacKaye crazy years thinking Bars are meeting places and places to unwind. But at some point, what is culture unwinding from, and why can't they meet anywhere else? Ian MacKaye unwind bars culture The food thing is crazy to me. In this town the beer thing is also crazy to me. Frankly even with Brightest Young Things, it's such a celebration of [beer and food], all this stuff. I don't think it's bad or evil, but there's something out of bounds. It's like, "A bar opened!" Who cares? Think about that. Ian MacKaye crazy beer thinking I don't need any more avenues of communication, and frankly I think people are still working out to realize that it's just a tool[social media] rather than something that you have to do or participate in. Ian MacKaye communication media thinking I'm a fifth generation Washingtonian and I was born and raised here. My kid's a sixth generation Washingtonian. Honestly I wish people didn't move because I love the people of the city. Ian MacKaye cities kids moving First of all, [St. Stephen's] is a radical church. It was one of the first DC churches to have gay ceremonies. A woman said mass there, which almost got a priest excommunicated there; Black Panthers spoke at the church; it was a sanctuary for civil rights protesters and anti-war protesters. Ian MacKaye gay rights war I'm not a sports dude, but I'm interested in the sociological implications of it. Ian MacKaye sociological implications sports
